mary snow, cnn. >>> happening now, the fiscal cliff hanger, will the new job's report convince the president or the house speaker to start compromising. and same sex marriage on the line. the justice's eagerly awaited announcement, and the secret service is under investigation for a shocking security breach. sensitive information left on a train. i'm wolf blitzer, you're in "the situation room." a analyst warn that you need to big under the headlines to get a better sense of the economy right now. hired continues to grow at a modest pace, 146,000 jobs were added this month, better than economists expected. and unemployment fell to 7.7%. here is the catch. more than a third of the jobs added were in retail, and many of them may vanish after the holidays, and the drop in the unemployment rate was mainly due to the fact that 350,000 people simply gave up looking for work. let's bring in jim acosta. jim, will these jobs numbers have any impact on the stand off over the so-called fiscal cliff. >> wolf, they might. the new job's report could give the president leverage on his push to raise taxes.